Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Nwabueze Ngige, has stated that the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) can only be brought to an end by the Union.
Mr. Ngige who is also a former Anambra State Governor and Senator made this known on Thursday, when he made an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He urged the Academic Union to make a decision that is in the best interest of the students.
On when the issues will be resolved, the minister said, “It depends on ASUU. The ball is in their court. They should go and meet the Benimi Briggs Committee and look at what the committee is doing and make further inputs so that the work can be accelerated,” he said.
He added, “ASUU has to come down from their high horse. You cannot go and start intimidating people in NITDA and threatening the Minister of Digital Economy and Communication with revocation of his professorship that he is a fake professor. You go to ABU and say you are going to withdraw the certificate of the director of NITDA. That’s bullying. It is not allowed in labour negotiations.”
